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Ex-FBI agent Ali Soufan’s account of the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah is roughly this: he and several other interrogators from both FBI and CIA objected to the

Kenneth Feinberg, who is in charge of administering the massive effort to compensate the victims of the Gulf oil spill, is testifying before a subcommittee of

An ad for The Awakening 2012 (Pic via Tea Party Manatee) The Freedom Federation , a network of conservative faith-based organizations, will host its “Awakening 2012″ event in Orlando next year, featuring a long list of big conservative names as “invited speakers.” Presidential hopefuls Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Rick Perry have all been invited to Awakening, which will take place April 19-21 at Calvary Assembly in Winter Park. According to the group’s website , Republicans Sen

Religious right groups praised the House Rules Committee vote on Wednesday morning to pass an amendment that would codify a gay marriage ban in the Minnesota Constitution, but also called for action against “gay activists” who would “assault,” “attack” or “take one last shot” at Republican legislators. While conservative Christians rally the troops for a possible vote on the House floor this afternoon, Gov. Mark Dayton said he’d fight it “with every fiber of my being.” The New Jersey-based National Organization for Marriage urged its supporters to rally at the Minnesota Capitol

WATERTOWN, N.Y. -- If there was any doubt that Democrats view the special election in NY-23 as a chance to take on the conservative movement, former New York

Michael Kinsley, managing editor of The Atlantic Wire, is annoyed with Paul Krugman’s latest column in The New York Times, which he calls patronizing for its

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) gives the exclusive to RedState -- the third such exclusive a conservative leader has given to that blog, by my count. America needs

Adding to an ongoing list of controversial statements, American Family Association President Bryan Fischer is now claiming that HIV is not the cause of AIDS or

Zachary Roth at TPM Muckraker has a terrific roundup on how hyped-up fears of voter fraud in swing states never came to pass. The secretaries of state in

Much of the buzz about the late Robert Byrd’s (D-W.Va.) Senate replacement has revolved around what the appointment will mean for the Democrats’ economic

A month ago, The Persecution of Sarah Palin author Matthew Continetti argued that Sarah Palin’s lousy poll numbers didn’t matter because maybe, just maybe,

I missed the 60 Minutes interview with President Obama yesterday, but The New York Times gives me the highlight reel. On Afghanistan: “There’s got to be

RENO, Nev. -- The Democratic takeover of Washoe County, a longtime GOP stronghold in Nevada, has Republicans across the state reeling because it opens the door for Sen. Barack Obama to win the Silver State’s five electoral votes on Nov. 4.

I never got around to plugging Robert Draper’s absolutely must-read deconstruction of the McCain campaign for the New York Times Magazine. Be sure to check it

Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Rep

TWI reader ajm8127 wrote in this afternoon with a thought on the insurance industry: For profit health care insurance providers are a conflict of

We knew it on Friday, when Bill Kristol praised President Obama’s decision to send more troops to Afghanistan, but the degree to which neoconservatives are

I just received some materials from ACORN that shed light on its procedures for handling falsified registrations. Consider the following example from Lake